My undergrad (which was not quite NYU pricetag, but closer than I'd like) pulled that shit and I flat out told them, "you're not getting another dime out of me til I've finished paying my loans off—call me back in 20 years."

I think they're just trying to promote every single opportunity that a woman possibly has to make the choice that they consider to be the right one. Thinking about it in that broad sense, I don't even mind, after all more info is always good to my mind.

I had this happen to me the first time I had makeup professionally done (a trial for my wedding. yeah, I know). The makeup artist claimed that she just needed to eliminate all the red, which was a sign of swelling, etc. and I was just like "no, that's the color that I am. I'm pink. Not yellow."

My bet is that she had to get butterfly stitches for some reason and is trying to cover it up.

Is it bad that when I clicked this headline I was sort of hoping for some class warfare?

yup, that's the idea! Also the loan limits increase depending upon the number of units, and 75% of the rental income is counted as income when calculating your income/debt ratio.

Thanks for sharing! And reading references are always good. We're definitely not looking to be a big player in our market, which is already super saturated with giant developers. Rather we're looking for a little triplex or fourplex that'll enable us to get into a neighborhood we can't afford a single family home in,…

I definitely hear you on your strategy changing based on interest rates. I have one school loan that sits at 6.55% that I'm paying off ASAP, but once that's done the rest of them are at 2%, so I'm planning to back off and devote my attention to making my money earn more money.

If I get any back, it's going straight to the student loan! It sounds boring I know, but I'm SO excited about how close I am to paying off grad school, there's nothing that could make me happier.

No, because step one to not being victimized by someone is limiting your availability to them. Hard to do that when you're living in the same house.

So the one thing I get about Rick's logic is, at this point in this world you have to be able to trust your people with your life. If you can't trust them, then they are a threat to everyone and need to go, it's that simple.

Or having him move out of said house, instead of keeping him living with said family? If he's banging on a locked door and causing a ruckus, neighbors are a lot more likely to notice than when he can just get at them whenever he wants.

Even sadder, this is not the only time I've heard this comparison from a man.

I moved out the very week I turned 17, and her mom scares me twice as much as my own did.

I don't think *having* parents is the point here, it's not being exploited by them. That's fucking priceless.

2 masters degrees here, 3 fulltime jobs, one business owned, and occasional freelancing between us, and the two of us and a cat manage to reside in a 600 s.f. one bedroom apartment.

oh I agree that continuing to build the false friendship was manipulative, but I think finally coming clean is the best and most honest thing they could have done.

I'm sure that feels shitty if you don't reciprocate, but look at it from the other side—that person is finally being honest with you that they aren't actually interested in being your friend and they're done pretending. Isn't that better than a friendship that's really a ploy to try and get in your pants?

THIS. I had a best friend in high school, and his girlfriend (who later became his wife) hated me with the heat of a thousand suns. There was never anything between us, in fact I gave him advice about how to get her to go out with him in the beginning. I wound up giving up the friendship when they got married—I had…

I would disagree that getting her help is the first course of action. Put on your own oxygen mask first. This guy needs to make sure that he is safe before trying to make sure she is safe.